Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maintaining friendly relations with Hungary was important, but what Engelbert Dollfuss apparently went to Budapest for was to allow Vice Chancellor Emil Fey to perform a few blunt maneuvers for which Chancellor Dollfuss did not care to be directly responsible. The Heimwehr, fist of the Dollfuss regime, had seized virtual control of the Tyrol and was loudly demanding that the little Chancellor live up to his promise to end parliamentary government and attack Marxism in Austria (TIME, Feb. 12). Chancellor Dollfuss departed for Budapest and handed extraordinary powers to Vice Chancellor Fey, the Heimwehr's second in command...
...full of living. The book is a treatise on the liquor, but the living shines through on every page. Not just in anecdotes, profusely interspersed as they are, but in such by-the-way sentences as this: "There is no good in any man, woman, or wine that will allow liberties to be taken with them." Of all those who might have written a book on alcoholic beverages in 1920, other might perhaps have written as authoritatively, but the reader of "Notes on a Cellar Book" is sure that none could have written so delightfully as George Saintsbury...
...week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling as I see the matter...
...Hayes, who looked solemnly at many maps, listened to many arguments and finally awarded all the land between the Pilcomayo and the Verde rivers to Paraguay. Argentina accepted the award and President Hayes went down in South American history as a great peacemaker. Last week Paraguay stubbornly refused to allow any of the territory included in the original Hayes award to be discussed in arbitrating the present Chaco War. Bolivia, arguing that it had not been considered in the White House decision of 1878, refused to carry on further negotiations unless the Hayes award was thrown open to fresh discussion...
...Photographic competition affords worthwhile experience to those men in the College who are interested in the science of taking and developing pictures. Here the candidate is initiated into the whole system of the preparation of an engraving for a daily news sheet, from the subject to allow his percent to be taken, through the developing printing and enlarging, to the final of the out itself. Under the careful and guidance of experienced editors the candidate is gives the results of which are criticized both from the standpoint of technique and results obtained...